Many software applications consist of a number of interdependent steps and are executed under the supervision of a human administrator or operator. The administrator responds to e...
The join operation, which combines tuples from multiple relations, is the most fundamental and, typically, the most expensive operation in database queries. The standard approach t...
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Programmers write programs, expressing plans for machines to execute. When composed so that they may cooperate, plans may instead interfere with each other in unanticipated ways. P...
Mark S. Miller, Eric Dean Tribble, Jonathan S. Sha...
The actions of a robot like lifting an object are often best thought of as low-level processes with uncertain outcome. A highlevel robot plan can be seen as a description of a task...
Self-adaptive component-based architectures facilitate the building of systems capable of dynamically adapting to varying execution context. Such a dynamic adaptation is particular...
Romain Rouvoy, Paolo Barone, Yun Ding, Frank Elias...